Device Activity Tracker — WhatsApp & Signal Activity Tracker via RTT Analysis
A phone number can reveal whether a device is active, in standby or offline (and more). This PoC demonstrates how delivery receipts RTT timing leak sensitive device-activity patterns. (WhatsApp / Signal)
📱 https://github.com/…
Source: Sam Altman's Merge Labs, which seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of LA-based nonprofit Forest Neurotech (Emily Mullin/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-brain-computer-interf…
Added a zoom level to the Category page on the Exocortex-Log app. Can make the graphs look a lot cleaner now.
Looking back over the last 100 months here, we can see in general my social life is quite seasonal -- Festivals are a lot of social all weekend long and a couple of them in a month really bumps up the hours from my usual habit of sitting alone in a dark room pressing buttons.
The peak in 2019 is a summer filled with Glasto and Noisily and another festival or camping trip I don’t seem to have recorded the name of.
Then clearly visible is the drop-off in social activity as the COVID pandemic hit. Virtual-Social (IE zoom meetings and the like) picked up quite a bit around there but had died back to almost nothing way before the hours spent with actual people started to tick up.
Annoyingly, I have my biggest gap in data right on top of the pandemic there, where I failed to back up for months and then data became corrupted.
When the data-hole is over we see social life still not really returning until the middle of 2021 and not really getting back into stride until summer 2022.
It remains much lower now on average with lower peaks than before the pandemic too. Multiple reasons.
Work is pretty constant all the way though other than the data-hole. Dipping when I take time off for social mostly.
That data-hole is annoying. Back up your data kids.
#lifeLog #app #exocortexLog
Anthropic details the "Assistant Axis", a pattern of neural activity in language models that governs their default identity and helpful behavior (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/assistant-axis
"The site will be hosted at "freedom.gov," the sources said. One source said officials had discussed including a virtual private network function to make a user's traffic appear to originate in the U.S. --> and added that user activity on the site will not be tracked. <-- "
Sure, buddy. I believe you.
Happy to be part of project INST-DSpace
The project aims to expand the #DSpacCRIS data model so that instruments and facilities can be added to the snapshot for the institutional research activity. #CERIF #eurocris
Gloom & Bloom II ☁️🌺
黑暗绽放 II ☁️ 🌺
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Need to actually ban smartphones before, say 16. A non-internet phone is more than sufficient for safety purposes. It isn't just social media but the mindless scrolling of mostly USAmerican drivel videos and the like. I know children who will do it for hours, in preference to any worthwhile activity.
Keir Starmer tells MPs he is open to social media ban for young people | Keir Starmer | The Guardian
@… I'm also enjoying the data leakage tracker that comes built in with /e/OS
Here's Nordea ID caught red handed leaking telemetry to Urban Airship.
In case you are wondering, I was asked about these and said no. It's in the app settings.
- Allow use of digital activity data
- Allow use of m…
Pornhub is being extorted by ShinyHunters after the search and watch history of its Premium members was reportedly stolen in a recent Mixpanel data breach (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu
Imagine that you're running a pentesting company.
That company has a GitHub organization with no public activity.
Then, you have a private GitHub account that links you to said company, and its only public activity is complaining that @… is disclosing rubbish vulnerability reports.
https://mastodon.social/@bagder/115886631045832599
@… I'm also enjoying the data leakage tracker that comes built in with /e/OS
Here's Nordea ID caught red handed leaking telemetry to Urban Airship.
In case you are wondering, I was asked about these and said no. It's in the app settings.
- Allow use of digital activity data
- Allow use of m…
> Google calls the illicit activity "model extraction" and considers it intellectual property theft, which is a somewhat loaded position, given that Google's LLM was built from materials scraped from the Internet without permission.
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I managed to get out and I can confirm snow and ice on forest roads.
But it was fine. It all was a bit more technically challenging than usual.
Maybe I've got to clean my bike tomorrow.
#cycling #mountainbiking
The most obvious tell of this sort of incident is the phone call.
The only IT or #infosec folks who will proactively call you about an attempt at hijacking an account are those of your employer or *maybe* your access provider.
Google, Microsoft,Apple, etc. are not calling everyone with suspicious activity on their accounts. There are not enough support agents on the planet to do that…
oh, to be in a center doing some sort of enrichment activity
Australians are abandoning travel to the US,
and boycotting World Cup matches there next year,
as the Trump administration flags new rules
that will soon require visitors to ❌hand over their social media history
when applying to enter the country.
In a notice published on Tuesday,
the US Customs and Border Protection agency (CBP)
said tourists to the US
from 42 countries including Australia would have to
🔥reveal all of their social media …
Our public lecture series “Im Feuerwerk der Sonne“ starts this Thursday with a lecture by MPS Göttingen Director Sami Solanki.
Learn about solar activity and how it impacts Earth! In German.
More info here: https://www.mps.mpg.de/im-feuerwerk-der-sonne
"Another important element of anarcho-syndicalism is that it doesn’t limit itself to workplace activity, seeing tactics such as rent strikes and unemployed organising as means to further working class demands outside the workplace, alongside the more typically syndicalist direct action of strikes, occupations and sabotage by workers at the point of production."
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I made a #HamRadio antenna that I really like, and wanted to share the design and process so others can do it too. It's a carefully-tuned linked dipole that is light and has served me well for #POTA activations. It's now in its second iteration and so far I'm very happy with it.
…
I don't quite get this. New kind of spam? 🤨
Surveys of plant-pollinator interactions taken almost a century apart show how changing timing of flowering and pollinator activity in a warmer world is reshaping these mutualisms
#science
Blowback over posts about the death of Charlie Kirk has prompted companies to be more aggressive about monitoring employees' social media activity (Taylor Telford/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/12/13/employer-crackdown-so…
A Pilot Fired Over Krꙵsti Nоem’s Missing Blanket abusive temper tantrum and the Constant Chaos of unlawful and abusive activity Inside DHS
Secretary, with close adviser Cоrey Lꙵwandowski, faces fire for illegal confrontational immigration crackdown and self-promotional style; White House to wind down Minnesota operations
^--- there if fixed it for you WSJ you cоwards
Having failed to adapt the cats to my sleep schedule I’m considering adapting to theirs.
I will be changing my office hours to short bursts of activity between midnight and 6am where I will mostly fuck around and beg for food.
I'm tired grandpa.
CashApp is going to start using your shopping, browsing, and card activity to show you personalized ads. The key wording is always, you can opt out of seeing personalized ads, but it does not say you can opt out of having that information collected.
I'm unbelievably tired of existing in any modern capacity also meaning you must gift the knowledge all of your actions.
Cold and windy, but my gluttony over the holidays has insulated me well. I would trade some of it for fitness, which I suppose is what’s happening, albeit much slower and more arduously than I might like.
Ran 4/1 minute run/walk intervals for what turned out to be 6.5 km. Pace was 8:03/km.
#Running
Early winter this years #coldswim season. Water at about 4,5°C while the air was about -3°C. Swam for about 4min #Uckermark
It wasn’t the best day for photos with lots of low cloud but it was really lovely out on the Bogong High Plains today. Spotted a nankeen kestrel and a gang gang cockatoo. A handful of hikers and 3 other runners out there, otherwise had the place to myself. #trailrunning #bogonghighplains
🎶🎵 Dire Straits Š l’honneur ce soir …
je me suis pris de nostalgie tout d’un coup et j’aime bien ma page qui s’actualise automatiquement avec ce que j’écoute 🤓
https://rmendes.net/listening/
VCs fund companies who get on the latest hype train. Solving a real user problem is a secondary concern; "product market fit" is seen as something you do only after you build, a sales problem.
But when the product doesn't solve any real problems, showing "progress" to your board is impossible!
So managers invent metrics. Many people are going to come back to the office this week and set goals based on what activity is easiest to measure, rather than what i…
I just bought Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis on Good Old Games for less than 3 bucks. I have never played it. It's 33 years old by now...
#scummvm #gog #LucasArts
Moody Urbanity - Urbana Composita 🌆
情绪化城市 - 建构城市 🌆
📷 Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
#Letterboxd does this weird thing. It waits for the year to end before they make a big deal about the stats for that year. Or maybe the strange thing is that some services do this in early December.
They say I watched 377 movies last year and I say we are in a disagreement about what should be counted as a movie. I have a list over there of the 106 movies I saw at the cinema last yea…
A very tedious but fruitful activity for investing/trading: going back in time for a company of your choice and following stock price with replay feature in parallel with reading SEC filings and using google search tools to go back in time for the ticker and see what hits come up. 1/n
What could go wrong? "Artificial intelligence systems built with biologically inspired structures can produce activity patterns similar to those seen in the human brain even before they undergo any training, according to new research from Johns Hopkins University."
Johns Hopkins Study Challenges Billion-Dollar AI Models
https://scitechdaily.com/johns-hopkins-study-challenges-billion-dollar-ai-models/
"He did decide, though, that with more time and a great deal of mental
effort, he could probably turn the activity into an acceptable perversion."
-- Mick Farren, "When Gravity Fails"
ICE activity in the Fargo #NorthDakota area.
"confirmation of federal immigration agents in the Fargo-#Moorhead (#Minnesota) metro area came from a local law enforcement agency."
The NYC token, launched by ex-New York City Mayor Eric Adams on January 12, saw its market cap drop from ~$600M to ~$100M after suspicious liquidity activity (Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/354377/eric-adams-nyc-token-crashes-amid-liquidity-extractio…
Added Gitlab theme to my Calendar Overview (Gihub Style) Hugo template.
The template is messy but it works!
https://codeberg.org/alecsargent/hugo-templates/src/branch/master/activity-overview
“[open social] must be funded like infrastructure, not consumer apps. In fact, given the scale of hybrid threats, it should be funded from defense budgets, not innovation leftovers.
The strategic layer of democracy is the information layer. And right now, it is outsourced.” @seabass.bsky.social
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And another nag popped up about the Google Rewards app. Again, I said no to them tracking me more. Then I go to the page... How about just accept the fact that I say no. There is no way in hell I will allow you to track me, no to tracking my web activity and HELL NO TO PERSONALIZED ads.
While I was in grad school, four of my classmates were involved in nasty bike accidents. Three recovered and returned to finish their degrees, one did not.
Guess which one was not wearing a helmet.
@…
I remember Xenix back when I was in high school. I had a copy lying around but there was so much dev activity on DOS then Windows that it was relegated to the pile of ignored OSs.
✅ Microsoft's Xenix - by John Paul Wohlscheid
https://computeradsfromthepast.substac
Un Momento II 🕰️
一瞬 II 🕰️
📷 Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
"The reasons for Starmer’s exceptional servility are well understood. He has pinned disproportionate hopes for the revival of Britain’s floundering economy on trade with the US, an activity which is now conducted purely at Trump’s caprice.
"Above all, his “coalition of the willing” striving to prolong the Ukraine war depends on US military, intelligence and logistical support for the foreseeable future."
The United States has released a new NOTAM for the entire Venezuelan Flight Information Region (FIR), warning of a potentially hazardous security environment amid worsening conditions and heightened military activity in and around Venezuela.
Source: https://bsky.app/profile/azintel.bsky.
Now this was a gorgeous cycling loop. Temperature was around freezing but luckily just few wind. As you see, the weather was ace. Clouds and fog stayed in the north 🌞
Also tried Knee warmers, which was just right! A very good buy!
I just need a solution against freezing toes. @… ,I bought neoprene toe warmer! The shoes are just a bit tight then, …
Spotify launches Listening Activity on iOS and Android, letting users view friends' real-time listening via the sidebar alongside chats, as an opt-in feature (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/857404/spotify-listening-activity-mobile
Un Momento 🕰️
一瞬 🕰️
📷 Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
They have a great “big” point here about incrementalism but also: fiber, water, and even minimal activity specifically are great first steps towards feeling better.
I suspect that a lot of us 1st-worlders feel lousy in part because we’re each paving our own way to T2D, colon cancer, and heart disease. @…
Minneapolis Police stormed into three different filter blockades, chasing away community members and removing infrastructure that was actively being used to monitor and combat ICE activity. (Date unknown)
Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1qugj4x
Can't light the range without fire cement to seal the flue.
Can't get fire cement on a Sunday (or yesterday, for that matter).
Time for vigorous activity, instead!
In december hebben de besturen van de digitale expertisenetwerken van D66, VVD, GL-PvdA en CDA elkaar opgezocht en consensus bereikt. Bij het bekijken van het coalitieakkoord "Aan de slag" zien zij genoeg inhoudelijke punten terug, om het een succes te mogen maken. Bijgaand het document waarover de vier besturen consensus hebben gevonden.
Private equity and private credit groups' big bets on SaaS companies, the biggest area of PE activity in the past decade, risk being derailed by the rise of AI (Financial Times)
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/d8dcf5d9-cf89…
My #silentsunday... Do you know that? You're lazy but you also know that you want some physical activity?
The weather wasn't motivating either. But I finally did one of my standard loops. It was indeed silent as there were almost no people out today.
No more than an occasional "hi". Besides that, no talking, nothing but a fox 🦊 in the distance on a field.
RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115617435887937039
Given the current direction of the EU, I am planning to delete more of my social media accounts and significantly increase my non-account activity over Tor.
I am shifting a large porti…
Past and Sapiens 🉐
过去和智人 🉐
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Instagram launches Your Algorithm, which shows users an AI analysis of their activity to let them customize the topics shaping their Reels recommendations (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/instagram-lets-you-pick-what-shows-up-in-reels/
Surprisingly, and unfortunately, NsCDE appears possibly abandoned, with no github activity since mid-2023. I prefer it to CDE, which (somehow) is still actively maintained. Nevertheless, the most recent release of NsCDE works well on openSUSE as of today. I wish I could say the same of CDE.
'Schnee und Eis nah dran' #FotoVorschlag ' Snow and Ice closeup'
Oh I have to post this photo again. Sorry if you've seen it in the past already.
But lying on the ground on top of a summit, waiting for the next gust of wind blowing the snow into my direction... this day will stay in my memories! - To me it is my absolute closeup of snow and ice.
(up to …
RE: #Mastodon has been quite low this week, I’ve been feelin…
Moody Urbanity - Past II 📴
情绪化城市 - 过去 II 📴
📷 Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
City Spot ⭕️
城市点阵 ⭕️
📷 Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Pebble unveils Pebble Round 2 smart watch with a rounded screen and basic health and activity tracking but no heart rate monitor, shipping in May for $199 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/02/pebble-reboots-its-thinnest-…
TechCreate's shares surged ~1,995% in the past week; the payment software company says it is not aware of any info that would account for the trading activity (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/markets/techcreate-keeps-going-pa…
The US government finalized forfeiture of $400M tied to Helix crypto mixer last week; Helix operator Larry Dean Harmon was sentenced to three years in 2024 (Vince Dioquino/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/356443/us-forfeiture-400-million-helix-darknet-mixer
Chinese-language crypto laundering networks processed ~$16.1B in 2025, or $44M per day on average across 1,799 wallets, representing 20% of laundering activity (Chainalysis)
https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/2026-crypto-money-laundering/
China's central bank reaffirmed its stance on crypto, calling virtual currency activity illegal and saying stablecoins fail KYC and anti-money-laundering rules (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa<…
Investigation: internal Binance files show it failed to stop hundreds of millions in crypto from flowing through suspicious accounts, even after a 2023 US deal (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5d8af345-d593-47b1-85ae-758ee60e9a89